Weekend

I have had one of the best weekends I've had in quite a while. First,it started out Friday evening, Makayla had a sleepover at her friend's house so hubby and I had the rare treat of going out alone. We decided to go out to eat somewhere we had never been before The Millhouse. On the scale of 1-10 I would give it a 3. They have such a variety it's an overkill. I decided to get fried shrimp, and they were mostly breading and very crunchy. My husband enjoyed the ribs, that he had. While we were waiting for our food to get ready my husband's boss and his family came in. They talked for awhile and went to their table. We ate our dinner and was waiting for our check when our waiter came back and told us that he had just been informed that the gentleman across the room had taken care of our meal. In which was my husband's boss. What a blessing that was. So then not knowing what to do, not really a movie we wanted to go see. We went to the local auction. That was a hoot. Somebody has been buying alot of those $9.95 infomercials. lol
Saturday we woke up early enough to go to yard sales. woo hoo!!!! The best deal we got there was a scanner/printer/fax for $10.00.
Finally yesterday, we had been looking for a washer and dryer. Our washer died a couple of weeks ago, and the laundromat is definitely not any fun.
I received an e-mail through Craigslist of someone having a Whirlpool Washer and Dryer only 6 months old. They were moving to Germany and had to get rid of them. We did good!!!! They were asking for $400.00 or make an offer. We got them both for $250.00. They look brand new.
So another wonderfully blessed weekend for me.

Finally a new computer

Our computer crashed a couple of weeks ago and I've been using my husband's laptop. When he was at home. He's working out of town alot these days. Well today we finally got another one. WooHoo!!!!!!
Maybe I was getting too addicted to it and came to realize that I can go a day or two without one. lol
I had a great Mother's Day weekend. We spent Saturday afternoon with my Mom. And the journal jar that I had given her for Christmas, she has put it in book form, and gave it to me to read. I cried and I laughed. It was awesome. Now I'm to return because she has decided that she wants to add more to it. I told her it seemed to be directed more to me and she said well you were the one that gave it to me. So I've convinced her to write one for my brothers, and possibly my sister. And give them to us this Christmas. Brandi, shh don't tell your Dad. lol
Then yesterday, was of course church and then we had lunch with my mother-in-law. She wrote me an awesome note in my card. I have never been loved and accepted by such wonderful in-laws as I have this time.
Then when we got home, it was gifts. The kids gave me okay don't laugh too hard. But it was the two things I requested. A set of bathroom scales, in which I love them there digital so there's no guessing of if I gained or lost weight the previous week. And the other was a small George foreman grill, well hubby goofed and bought a panini grill, but I'm returning for the grill I want. So I can grill my meals, when he is out of town working.
Then Megan, Denny, and Emily came over and they gave me some great Calphalon cookie sheets. I wonder if she's hinting for some home-made cookies. lol I doubt it because she's a very good cook. Their just slowly giving me great bake ware. Because Christmas before last they gave me 6 Wilton cake pans, so it would be easier to make my 12-layer chocolate cake.
So even though it's a day late I hope everyone had a wonderful Mother's Day.

Giveaway Win Package

I received my package in the mail yesterday that I had won over at http://tidymomof2.blogspot.com/2009/04/inplace-system-by-peter-walsh-giveaway.html

With everything that has been going on lately, I had forgotten about it. It was such a surprise when the mail lady came knocking on the door. Now to find uses for everything that was in it. I can't wait to get everything organized in it. Makayla loves the 2 rubber band balls. She decided to make them into one big ball and to her delight under all the rubber bands was a big bounce ball.

Out of the loop and my days lately

I feel like I have been totally out of it for over a week now. Ever since our computer crashed, died, went totally south. So now my only resource is my husband's work laptop when he gets home every evening.
A couple of days before our computer died a couple of blogs I had went on began opening page after page of the two blogs. Until there was about 18 pages opened. Not sure if that had anything to do with the computer dying or not. But since then I have been so leery of the blogs I go on. I follow about 90 blogs so since then ' I have only been reading the blogs that I have for the few months I have been blogging. I'm sorry but the 10 or so that I added the week before my computer crashed may be safe. But as I've always been told it's better to be safe than sorry.

Also this is how I've been spending my days while Megan is working.

Have you ever seen a sweeter face? I am loving getting sugar from her all day.

Wal-Mart

Update as per Megan: lol The name of the local pharmacy is McCook's across from Fordham's Farmhouse.

The more blogs I read, it seems that some puts a title so that when googled their blog will be found. Well this one should be pretty popular. LOL
Why is it that people feel like any answer even a wrong one is better than none at all? I dropped off a prescription for Makayla Monday morning at Wal-mart. I was told give us about 30 minutes. An hour later she tells me were out of that medicine will get more in at 5:00 this afternoon. So I returned around 3:00 on Tuesday. I was asked when I dropped it off and proceeded to tell her that I was told they would have more by 5:00 on Monday. So she checked and then returned and say we won't have anymore until Friday. I said that won't work. Could I please have my prescription back? She said I guess you would be pulling your hair out by then.
I didn't say what I really would have liked to have said.
Why does some medicines come with such a stigma? Just assuming that if your child is on a certain type of medicine, that she must be a monster.
If your going to work in a pharmacy, even if your not the pharmacist. Read up on the medicines and familiarize yourself with it's purpose before making wise cracks about it.
But this person was an older lady and their view on medicines for attention deficit is that the child just needs a good spanking. As in previous blogs I thoroughly researched ADD before putting Makayla on it. I realize now just how frustrating it was for her to sit in school and daydream and not concentrate on her work.
So the next time you decide to ridicule my decision for putting my child on medicine. Be thankful that you are healthy and perfect. Because what goes around comes around.
Also, I took the prescription to a locally owned pharmacy this morning and it took about 15 minutes to get it filled. Nice courteous people, that went out of their way to make sure I was taken care of.
So from here on out they will get my pharmacy business.

Another Giveaway

http://mommamadeitlookeasy.blogspot.com/2009/04/munchkin-giveaway.html

What a great giveaway. Go check it out and leave her a comment to enter. As we all know we all LOVE comments.

Megan's Writing Contest Entry

As you may have realized I think Megan has a true talent for writing. But as you will see if you follow this link, http://meganbhulsey.wordpress.com/2009/04/16/nobody-told-me/

she doesn't think so. Please go read her blog and leave her a comment. Like all of us, she loves comments.
She also has a link on her blog as to where you can enter the contest yourself if you would like. But you must hurry the deadline for the contest is Sunday, April 19.